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Re: Utility to write DOS 3.3 disks under GS/OS?
- Subject: Re: Utility to write DOS 3.3 disks under GS/OS?
- From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Date: 26 May 2004 17:56:15 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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Dave Althoff Jr wrote:
>As I recall, the basic problem is that Apple never provided the
>documentation necessary for writing an FST, so no one has been able to
>finish the DOS 3.3 FST.
In fact, it would seem that "FST" is an unfinished vision.
It would appear that each FST that Apple wrote required changes
and/or extensions to the FST environment. The generalization of
an "FST" that could handle any disk format was aparently never
fully realized, and therefore not publicly documented.
-michael
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